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No. This isn’t something just taking place in South Africa. Instead, it is actually being discussed right here in the good ol’ US of A.
US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive
Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic “shrink to survive” proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline.
telegraph.co.ukThe government looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature.
Local politicians believe the city must contract by as much as 40 per cent, concentrating the dwindling population and local services into a more viable area.The radical experiment is the brainchild of Dan Kildee, treasurer of Genesee County, which includes Flint.
Having outlined his strategy to Barack Obama during the election campaign, Mr Kildee has now been approached by the US government and a group of charities who want him to apply what he has learnt to the rest of the country.Mr Kildee said he will concentrate on 50 cities, identified in a recent study by the Brookings Institution, an influential Washington think-tank, as potentially needing to shrink substantially to cope with their declining fortunes.
Most are former industrial cities in the “rust belt” of America’s Mid-West and North East. They include Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Memphis.
When the accusations were flying some years ago accusing the American government of watching the city of New Orleans get destroyed, the outrage was unprecedented.
Today we have a Black President who is toying around with the idea of bulldozing towns (some of which Blacks make up the majority) in order to make them better manageable.
Remember how activist after activist after activist screamed about how po’ Black folks will have no where else to go if their homes were destroyed?
That’s “Change” with an asterisk.
Just a personal side note.
Many years ago, the city of Philadelphia decided to level a huge swath of the Logan section of Philadelphia (where I spent part of my childhood). The homes were sinking, so this was their “solution”. Decades later, that section is STILL flattened, filled with weeds and constantly littered with garbage and crime. Now America is about to see this on a national scale.
What my old neighborhood in Logan looks like from the air.
That green space used to be all houses.
This is what it looks like from the ground.
There’s your green space for ya.
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